It doesn't matter whether you buy Itanium from Dell or HP or IBM or the computer tinkerer downtown, the resulting workstations are all going to be basically the same hardware and they're all going to be running Windows or Intel-compatible Unix.

The newest iPad went on sale in Australia early yesterday, and at the front of a line of fans hoping to get hold of the 4G-ready tablet computer was a tinkerer from California gadget-repair firm iFixit, who quickly took one apart for a Web blog.

All that number-crunching - to think he could have presented Countdown over the same period and be a multi-millionaire - all those step-changes from major reformer to minor tinkerer, all those betrayals by his alter-ego Tony Blair.

A born tinkerer described as ``the butterfly of the neighborhood,'' Brandon had built his own motor scooter, hatched baby chicks and once tearfully appealed to a local church congregation to pray for his dead dog.

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